Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> You had better leave etymology to people who know the ABC of the
> trade. Adding "suffixes" at will without explaining what they are and
> what they are supposed to mean (or at least illustrating their use
> with other roots) ought to be treated as bad manners on a linguistic
> list.
>
> Piotr
I understand your point of view. Trough an "suffix" which ha sno
explanation one will create one etymology maybe as weak as the already
accepted one.
Before continuing my idea it should be interesting to see wherefrom will
derive "*excutulare" since if this is a compound, it seems to be a
compound of at least 3 elements as prefix, root, suffix.
The South Italian form "cutulare" has nothing to say here for the Rom.
"scutura", arguments will follow.
Which is then the way the people who know the ABC of this trade made up
an "excutulare"?
Alex